religionists, whom we call missionaries, have a firm belief that

these people will be saved, and that they are the instruments of

it; and on this account they undergo not only the fatigue of the

voyage, and the hazards of living in such places, but oftentimes

death itself, and the most violent tortures, for the sake of this

Father Simon was appointed, it seems, by order of the chief of the

mission, to go up to Pekin, and waited only for another priest, who

was ordered to come to him from Macao, to go along with him. We